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Hello Sir .
My question is a bit of a weird one, please excuse it .
However, I would like to know how to allocate my points to a 10 mark question.Q1 for example of Sept/Dec 2017 (a) part asks to evaluate business risks facing the group for 10 marks
And (b) part asks risks of MM for again 10 marks each .My question is, do I write 5 points each in detail
Or
Do I give 10 separate points ?This always confuses me in the exam and I tend to take a lot of time answering questions if I write 10 points each .
Let me know,
Thanks .Marium, this comes down to a matter of technique
With the verb ‘evaluate’ in the context of risks the examiner is looking for a risk to be identified and then an explanation of whether that risk could be material and, if so, just how material
With 2 parts (a) and (b) each worth 10 marks, I would be surprised if you were able to find 10 risks for either part (a) or part (b)
It’s more likely that you would struggle to find 5 risks for each part
In that situation allocate 5 marks to the identification and 5 marks to the explanation / expansion
I used to find when planning answers as a student that, in a question where 10 separate points are asked for, I would struggle to get past 6
If you are anything like that then your approach is set out for you – identify 6 and explain them
If you find that you can think of 10 separate risks, there’s not much room / time for explanation so it’s unlikely that such a question would be restricted to just 10 marks!
I suspect that maybe your problem is not so much the identification of the risks. I think that you’re probably over-explaining. It should only require 1 sentence by way of explanation for each risk that you identify and, even then, it’s only a short sentence (2 or 3 lines long … and no more!)
Do you think that might be the problem?
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